BIO

User: The Dreamer, The Technologist, The Instigator


Introduction


A mind that refuses to be boxed in. A seeker of patterns, a questioner of structures, and an artist-engineer hybrid who sees technology as both a tool and a battleground. Walks the fine line between understanding the system and playing with it — sometimes pushing, sometimes breaking, but always learning. A believer in immersive storytelling, decentralized power, and the raw energy of music. Doesn’t just consume culture; remixes it, challenges it, and reshapes it.


History


  • Early Years: Stared at the night sky, felt something bigger calling. Encountered the Voyager Golden Record, which planted the seeds of cosmic curiosity.
  • Teenage Chaos: A mix of rebellion, self-discovery, and soundwaves — band concerts, deep dives into games, and existential thoughts wrapped in distortion pedals.
  • Tech Awakening: Cloud computing, AI, and VR became not just interests but battlegrounds for exploring the future of consciousness and interaction.
  • The Present: Balancing art and technology, preparing to bring a VR vision to life — one that blends dystopian warfare, RTS strategy, new world order (😉) and embodied experiences into something new.

Personality & Habits


  • Thinks deeply about AI’s role in human purpose, beyond just automation and efficiency.
  • A romantic at heart, but in the Nietzschean, cosmic, and sometimes horny for elves and orcs (with female genitals and stuff, just to avoid some ambiguous interpretations, you know) way.
  • Believes in self-expression as liberation, whether in art, music, or cooking a damn good burger.
  • A chef of flavors, both in food and ideas—mixing seemingly opposing things to see what works.

Views on Pineapple Pizza


Accepts that it exists but doesn’t see it as a necessary force in the universe. Will tolerate it in a social experiment kind of way, but if given a choice, probably reaches for something crusty, cheesy, and more solidly grounded in flavor coherence.

2023

Comtek/Caterpillar

Senior QA engineer

Stack: Java, Spring Boot, AWS RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Firehose, Snowflake
Test automation stack: Java, Karate, Junit, JDBC, S3, SQS clients
CI: Azure DevOps

  • Contributed to a digital platform project at a Fortune 500 company, focusing on system integration testing for business-critical data management.
  • Analyzed requirements and specs, collaborated with engineering teams and stakeholders, and designed test plans that ensured reliable integration.
  • Leveraged a Java/Karate framework to automate complex data pipeline injestions and API interactions, employing a dynamic, data-driven approach that turned csv files into testing powerhouses. (never ever use this stuff if you value your sanity)
  • Set up and configured parameterized testing pipelines in Azure DevOps, tailored for multiple environments.

2022

Belkacar

Senior QA engineer

Stack: Kotlin, Gradle, Spring Boot WebFlux, gRPC, Kafka Streams, Project Reactor, MySQL, Clickhouse
Test automation stack: Kotlin, Gradle, Spring Boot, gRPC, Kafka Reactor consumer & producer, Junit
Performance: Gatling, K6
Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus
CI/CD: Hashicorp Nomad, Github Actions, Jenkins

  • Embedded in the car telematics platform engineering team, turning vague specs into bulletproof automation, setting up the initial E2E test automation framework using Kotlin, Spring Boot, and other tools.
  • Automated tests, configured Jenkins, and integrated Allure TestOPS so seamlessly you'd think it was magic.
  • Created a Telegram bot to start launches and send notifications because I like my QA updates as instant as my coffee (kinda lame, but so is everyone nowadays, so can you really blame me?).

2020-2022

DINS/Ringcentral

QA automation engineer

Stack: NodeJS, TypeScript, SocketIO, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, AWS DynamoDB, Lambdas, SES, SNS
Test automation stack: NodeJS, Axios, SocketIO, request, Chai, Mocha, Sinon
Performance: Gatling
Monitoring/observability: Telegraf, Victoria Metrics, Grafana, ELK stack, Cloudwatch
CI/CD: Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Gitlab, Terraform, Ansible

  • Part of the team that developed core backend services for a UCaaS platform messenger, focusing on multi-instance support and CI/CD implementation using Kubernetes and ArgoCD.
  • Designed and implemented E2E backend tests, performance-tested with Gatling, and optimized test frameworks until they were lean, mean testing machines.
  • Managed dev environments and provided actionable insights on testing strategies, improving speed and accuracy in failure analysis.

2018-2020

Taxcom

Sr QA engineer

Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Kafka
Test automation stack: Java, Selenium webdriver, Selenium grid, TestNG, Cucumber, RestAssured, JUnit, Allure
Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana
CI: Teamcity

  • Worked in ETL platform engineering team
  • Built UI and API test automation from the ground up, slashing regression cycles by over 70% and speeding up release times.
  • Set up testing pipelines in Teamcity, managed test documentation, and maintained API specs because details matter—except when they don’t.
  • Conducted data quality checks, exploratory testing, and contributed to user documentation.